WINOL notes(5/11/14)

A fairly hectic week with a few reporters missing or being out ill left the bulletin looking very weak come Wednesday morning. Thankfully due to some cool heads and some great archive stories from Steve, we managed to pull together enough footage to create a package on SADS (Sudden Adult Death Syndrome) which I was happy to be a part of and help voiceover and was proud of the quick turn around/end product.

Here are some of my brief notes from the Wednesday debrief with Ian Anderson and Claudia Murgh(sp?):

Lively beginning/Good headlines

Hate Crime:  In Studio: Keep the questions simple, think of the questions that are going to be the most beneficial for the people watching/interested in the subject. Give them something tangible. Make sure to be polite/use the right nomenclatures for people/guests of the show. “Professor”. 

Harvester: Very strong public interest story. 

Fire Strike: a lot of the good information/facts were not included. In interviews ask yourself “what would I like to know?”, prepare for the interview and know the facts prior to the interview, put yourself into the eyes of the viewer and make sure that we are clear. Must have better information and fresh information. You must do the leg work. 

Water Meters: Needed more facts and could have covered both sides of the story, and details on rival companies. Highlight the different areas of the package between fact and emotion.

SADS: More facts in the story, make the story more relevant/useful. 

IAN: Better interviews from the packages. Good quotes in stories and original content. Make sure you have a strong variety of stories and in studio chats. Improvement made on production. Sequences need a bit of a touch up. Make sure to do basic sequences. Variety of pictures needs to be improved. Strong Presenting. Walking football was very well covered. 

Debrief Notes (29/10/14)

ANGUS: Infinitely better. Signs of improvement. Good amount of content but could be snappier/more concise. Good quality of stories. Very good news agenda!. Headlines need to be better balanced (production still needs improvement). 

Puppy Murderer: 

EXTREMELY up to date!

Fantastic use of sourced images. 

Angus: Good use of old pictures mixed with sourced. Very powerful beginning. Visually/Sound very strong piece,well rounded piece. Use of more emotive language in the voiceovers made it stronger. 

Immigration Street: 

Another fantastically shot piece, DSLR. Good sound as well. 

Both sides covered?

Rule of thirds need to be implemented in the PTC, but still well shot. 

Angus: Very clear voiceover. Try to vary language. Good use of quotes from interviewee. 

Give context to the story/place. great coverage. 

HCC Job Cuts: 

Good  Voiceover. 

Sound in the interview’s are too low and need to be properly mic’d. 

No PANS?! 

Placement of PTC is random and doesn’t support the story.

Bus Cuts:

Sound in Vox Pox’s are useless/unheard. 

Repetitive sequences. 

Dull interview. 

Angus: Good piece to camera. Well said. Two piece to cameras are a bit much. 

Show more frontline services when doing a package about frontline services. 

Council stories are often very dry but can be improved with case studies. 

Buses: Sound is brutally bad. Shots look very similar. Practice. 

Lloyds Bank loss: 

Angus: Local angle not covered. Cannot have repetition in an in-studio talk. We didn’t have the local knowledge to make an national story into a local one. 

Flooding: 

strong PTC. 

Great use of natural sound. 

Case Study! 

Well shot interviews with good sound. 

Good use of access! 

Angus: Good link into the story. Good use of archive footage. Need to find a way to make phone interviews look better(graphic). ALWAYS HAVE A CAPTION AT THE BOTTOM OF AN INTERVIEW NEVER SAY “I SPOKE TO”. Interview is perfectly shot, framed well, good sound, soft background. 

Dangerous Driving: 

Good use of sourced footage and good sound.

Strong voiceover. 

Case study.

good sequences. 

Angus: Explain figures a lot better within a graphic. Have natural sound in the background of an interview. Was it more of a puff to the police? Case study was needed to cover both sides of the story. 

Stoneham Park

Great use of real images and constructed images. 

Good interviews, case studies. 

Good voiceover delivery. 

Angus: good story,read to the graphic. 

OOVS: cut too long, production skills still need a tinker with out words etc. 

Skatepark : good variety of shots. 

Angus: Short link. Make a clean voiceover. Don’t end a VT with SOT. Good shots. 

Sport; 

Tough mudder shows fantastic diverse set of stories being covered. 

Goal of the month was a bit much, music wise. 

Angus: BE HAPPY. Good scripting but big up the big stories? 

Work on the shooting skills including zoom. 

Amazing pictures! Very engaging. 

And Finally: great access, good use of back ano. Features package could be ‘sexier’ sell it more. Sound was a bit rough? 

(Statement usage needs to be template made with a certain style). 

Ensure that you involve people into your VT’s otherwise you’re not covering WHO the story is for!. 

WINOL Debrief, Week 3.

ANGUS:

Punctuality is key! (TEAM EFFORT)

“Being a Journalist is a disciplined profession.”

Much more improvement in QUANTITY of content. Bulletin lacks PEOPLE! (human interest stories: midwives doing their job/pregnant women?/Case studies as per usual.

Midwives: Forgot to mention ‘midwives’ in the headline section, when it is the key word of the topic.

Speed Limit- Well told

-White Balance had a problem, (Inside shots fine/Outside shots blue)

– “The Police refused to comment”

-Covered both sides of a story

Empty Homes:

-Talk slower.

-Introduce movement into a piece to camera to make a background more interesting.

-Light Balance (Camera Skills)

– Don’t go from an interview into a sign off, add more info or throw it forward.

Need to illustrate a story more, don’t use interviewee’s twice.

Graduation/Julian Fellowes-

Should have been higher up on the bulletin, huge story with great potential.

Lib Dem Story:

Sell your story.

Start with something fresh (new shots/new info) “Todays Story”

Graphics- Make it simpler/Improve font colours and sizes to ensure clarity. 

Sport- Relax/ Be careful not to be pompous and overcomplicated/DO NOT say what you see.

Mix it up when going into Sportsweek, different sports.

Science Story: Good pictures.

Final notes: Professionalism is key, timing/working as a team. “Think Pictures”, good content but could improve! Good variety of stories. ‘Think People’

IAN: Team work! Improve the work in the studio. Deadlines have to be sharper!

CHRIS: Poor production work. “All too student-y”, Not a lot of practice. Good stories however.

Personal notes: I think it is priority to get the production skills up, specifically in improving the smoothness (editing wise) of WINOL. At the moment, the jump cuts/sound need dire work to improve the quality of the production. As well, I believe that there should be more of a drive to get stories/text out onto the website each week. I fear a slump in content with people resting due to the size of the team.

Year 3, Week 1.

Despite not having published a bulletin this week due to lack on content, I think it’s important to reflect on a strong first attempt by the new team. A rather phenomenal effort by Alex and Steve to pursue their stories/beats up to Birmingham, and I’m certain that the features package that will come out of their work will pay off greatly for WINOL when all is said and done. Sadly we didn’t manage to fit it into the bulletin before post production and so we were left with a rather hollow production at the end of it all.

A few hiccups in production will soon be worked out as the large team comes to grips with the gallery/studio and mesh into a stronger team but of course there are some golden rules never to be forgotten (this weeks being: language within the studio).

Features have hit the ground running with a new newsroom and team which has already produced some stirling packages on fashion with high quality images (courtesy of Caroline/Holly) using DSLR’s which I believe to be critical in delivering a new higher quality, cleaner, professional looking site/bulletin and production.

A few slip-ups that could be expected such as interviews falling through, and a lack of video being captured when out filming caused packages that did go through to final production to be rather light and dull with minimal action shots.  I have no doubt in this years team to improve rapidly, and with the experience and assistance of the third years, I foresee a fantastic year ahead for WINOL.

I will be working with the team to improve their graphic skills in the up-coming weeks in order for my job to become obsolete and can focus on Data-Journalism in the run up to the General Election.

 

 

Logic/Frege

Logic: A extremely in-depth way of analysing/deconstructing both language and mathematics. Like taking an alarm clock to pieces and inspecting each section to see how it works, that is what Frege is said to have done with language.

Gottlob Frege- 1848-1925

1876- Came up with the idea of the ‘concept script’ which based itself on the question “How do we think about thinking?”.  Frege sought to find truth in all situations. He did this by distinguishing the difference between expression and identity as well as bringing more specificity to arithmetic/Aristotelian discipline.

Analytic logic which at the time replaced the syllogistic logic that Aristotle had invented. (Aristotle is a man, thus Aristotle is mortal)

Instead, Frege changes this using the ‘Power of IF’

IF Aristotle is a man THEN he is mortal.

This divides the statements into DATUMs and FUNCTION

It uses the 12 categories to divided argument/statements into to ensure pure analysis/deconstruct.

Anthony Kenny on Frege

Frege created a new calculus at the heart of logic, which at it’s heart, had the desire to establish true nature of logic/arithmetic. He did this using a single notation applicable to every field which makes rigorous use of proofs. This in turn created a flexible method of bringing out relevant similarities. He divided sentences/language into 3 types: Signs/Senses and references.

John Stuart Mill believed that Logic was a posteriori.

After Frege dissolved language so much that afterwards there was a clear difference between thinking and emoting. Ensuring that whatever you may possibly think would be true and logically and what you would emote would be feeling.

 

Economics/Keynesian, HCJ

The reading for this lecture/seminar was John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath, which gives insight into the working class of the dustbowl during the Great Depression.

The seminar focused on John Maynard Keynes(1883-1946) ideas/influence on Economics during the 30’s/40’s.

The main focus Keynesian economics based itself  upon was that whats good for you is not good for everyone. As well the fact that the economy can also take dip due to circumstances, outside of financial control.There is also the debate of whether people act rationally or irrationally when it comes to money/their wealth. This is where Keynes believes that people do not act in the good of the country, buying things at full price/illegally downloading movies and music and not paying at full price which is detrimental to the economy.

Keynes believed that the American economy needed to be stirred into life if it wanted to be jump started, his ideas:

1. A reduction in interest rates (monetary policy), and
2. Government investment in infrastructure (fiscal policy).

He believed would help create a feeling of faith between the banks and it’s customers.

Keynes, a modernist, understood that Utilitarianism was not how the economy should be run, he understood the need for fiscal policy but also a less method based approach to the economy, taking into account banks but also people and the mindset of them . However that could see the government encroach on the freedoms of the people much like with the new changes made the obtaining mortgages. Keynes believed that it was better to have people digging holes just to hinder unemployment, which could further ‘disequilibrium’ in the economy despite Ricardo/Smith believing unemployment was impossible or against the human condition.

Ricardo believed that there was an intrinsic value to  certain objects depending on the effort it took to make such, where as Adam Smith(1723-1790) believed however that the value of objects solely responded to supply and demand. Ricardo, who wrote the Labour Theory of Value, differed also with Karl Marx on the subjects of Labour Power/Pricing/Scarcity, which could have been due to an influence from Thomas Malthus and his principals on population.

There is also the debate of whether people act rationally or irrationally when it comes to money/their wealth. This is where Keynes believes that people do not act in the good of the country, buying things at full price/illegally downloading movies and music and not paying at full price which is detrimental to the economy.

Leslie Stephen wrote:

“If Malthus and Ricardo differed, it was a difference of men who accepted the same first principles. They both professed to interpret Adam Smith as the true prophet, and represented different shades of opinion rather than diverging sects.”

Now the conversation in Economics turns not to much unemployment, but debt and it’s ‘ceiling’ which one could say is being dealt with in a similar ‘Adam Smith-esque’ way. Instead of people/government’s naturally doing anything to ensure employment, it’s more ensuring the problem with the debt will never be TOO bad or TOO much. In our seminar the discussion on the UK’s use of the Bond Market was the major topic for discussion.

 

 

Critical Review: Semester 2

This semester I changed from my position in politics/local government to sport. I did this for multiple reasons but I thought it was important to try my hand at a range of different topics before I situate myself into one specific area of journalism. I think my transition gave me more time to work on both my writing and my production skills such as editing and making my VT’s look as appealing as possible. From an overall perspective, this semesters production of WINOL has been in my opinion a lot smoother, as relations between the 2^nd years and MA’s grew, so did the team and WINOL along with it. But I’ll look more specifically into sections of WINOL through the review.

 

Starting with my own beat of Sport:

This semester’s sports coverage spanned from worst to best in the space of around a week simply due to the weather, in January/February we as a small team struggled to find stories/games to cover as rain/flooding resulted in the majority of ALL sports games being postponed or simply cancelled. In order to get around this, we used the floods as an angle, looking into the financial aspects the postponements caused. My story on Winchester City and their dire need for £13,000 for ground improvements, highlighted our ability as a sports team to be able to branch out. Other good examples of this included Raveena’s Sochi/Billy Morgan story. Once the storm passed, we had a consistent production of football packages that we as team put great effort into, using multiple cameras, getting interviews with managers, and trying new dynamic effects/graphics on the VT’s. There was however a week where we failed to get ANY product into WINOL and Angus’s debrief was a definite lesson to us, when he told the sports team, we would have all be sacked straight away, anywhere else but WINOL. I think it’s good to reflect on that and make an effort to ensure that those situations never happen again.

 

Crime: This semester thanks to Bracken and Tom, who are both well qualified with DSLR’s and editing, Crime reporting on WINOL took a huge step up in my opinion, Brackens VT’s were stunning to watch, and her access to footage from Hampshire police on the worn-camera stories shows her passion for her beat and that paid off hugely in her packages. Stories as well such as Alex’s coverage of the Fareham murders/puppy murders was a great bit of access from our team, to get there, get the facts straight (very carefully done). A general high standard of stories, some, which even went under, embargo, shows how WINOL and its reporters involved in crime reporting have evolved from just standard/boring/easy court reporting.

 

Education: a fairly consistent batch of strong stories including the lecturer strikes in January/February helped give education more of a position in WINOL where it lacked last semester. Lucy has also worked on making the production values better and did a strong job of showing the seriousness of the strikes as well as getting interviews from both sides not just the unions or the university. We may have relied to heavily on the lecturer’s strikes however, when they stopped, our education stories didn’t fully dry up but seemed to slow to once every 2 weeks. But Lucy showed good resilience, moving to a different beat where she COULD get a story and providing for WINOL on a weekly basis as well as presenting one week successfully.

 

Environment

This was a huge part of our news agenda this semester. With the worst floods in hundreds of years, on our doorstep, this could prove to be our ‘Eastleigh by-election’. For 3-4 weeks we headlined the floods, replicating the newspapers/news outlets, and with the advice of Chris, we called time on it just at the right moment. What the reporters such as Laura/Alex and Meg covered during that period of time was fantastically shot, and they covered both sides of the story, which was crucial as we learnt from guest editors (Steve Brine/Rowenna Davis). Not just covering the side of HCC while they try to manage the flood’s etc. Laura got involved with the people who had been hit by the floods the hardest in Hambledon and other areas around Hampshire. There were questions raised if we overplayed the floods too much but I think in my opinion we carried it as far as other news sources had, especially as long as local sources such as the Echo.

 

I think an important area we worked on as a team, was social networking/twitter, as well as a stronger effort to get our text stories out at a similar/identical time as our VT’s on a Wednesday, in my opinion that’s why in this graph below, you can see significant rises in the page views on WINOL Wednesdays and the days after.

 

Production: I think this semester’s production team, which consists mainly of the MA’s, has been a smooth and efficient team. Where I think we could have improved is from moving out of the studio, which as previous discussions have concluded, is setting us back in terms of video quality as well as mobility. When we rely on something as strongly as we do with the studio, which has now become outdated, we rely on something that is holding us back from HD/better quality production. This is something that I think over the course of this semester we failed to act on, which could have given us an edge that other competing university courses are already jumping on. Also there have been small jump cuts and finite mistakes made in post-production that have also set us back from making a professional looking show.  I think Tate did a great job presenting, I’m not sure if the headlines have been working however, sometimes they are a bit much/corny/unprofessional and some times they aren’t said with the sought of energy they need to be said with. Also I’d have hoped we’d create more feature based content, Katherine did a great job but it slowly began to decrease, and I think that having something like ‘access Winchester’ is a good filler and lightens the website and our image.

 

Advice/Reflection:

A lot of the great advice given by the guest editors this semester has been taken into heart with the major theme from both Steve Brine and Rowenna Davis being that we need to make sure we cover both sides of the story and not just the corporate side of these stories.

I think this semester, I threw myself into my work more and I’d hope that effort could be seen not just from the lecturers but also by my classmates, I really enjoyed working with Drew and Raveena who I believe made a great team to work with. Along with working hard on sports section I’ve also been working with Chris on a new area of WINOL, Data Journalism, which I’m very excited to get more involved with in the future. I think where my biggest improvement this semester came is from being a more consistent, and being able to get VT’s out every week without fail which was a problem last semester for me and I’m very glad to have rectified that.

 

 

 

 

 

New Journalism/ Tom Wolfe Seminar Paper

The New Journalism/Tom Wolfe

Seminar Paper

Calum Warren-Piper

‘New Journalism’ is a term used to show/highlight a shift in the style of journalism that happens to be popular/strong at the time period. First appearing in the tabloid wars of Pulitzer/Hearst who created ‘New Journalism’ through the yellow press (which we’ve already discusses in previous lectures/seminars but should not be complicated with Tom Wolfe’s ‘new journalism’ )

 

Without going into too much detail =‘Sensationalisaton- Huge/emotive headlines with big striking pictures. Sun on Sunday etc.’

 

The type of journalism that played heavy on the ‘ID’ (Sex/violence/scandal), which has remained in modern day journalism in the form of the tabloids (News of the World/The Sun who follow similar patterns in both stories and visually), which have now been put under scrutiny due to Levinson (NOTW shutting down)

 

Which has brought up the question of whether Journalism is ruled by morals or by rules?

 

But ‘New Journalism’ redefined itself again in the 60’s and 70’s through the likes of Tom Wolfe/ Hunter Thompson and Truman Capote. It’s this ‘new journalism’ that Wolfe captures in his book, ‘The New Journalism’.

 

This updated ‘new journalism’ gives a complete new outlook into portraying the news, which had turned stale and dull. Cue the likes of the above Writers/Journalist to bring to the table ‘New Journalism’ which Wolfe captures in 4 simple checkpoints in his novel.

• Scene by scene construction. Be ‘IN’ the story, instead of just seeing the story, tell it! If you’re reporting on a drug story, be ‘in’ the story and do the drugs, live the story you are telling.

 

• Dialogue. By recording dialogue as fully as possible, the journalist is not-only reporting words, but defining and establishing character.

 

• The third person. Instead of simply reporting the facts, the journalist has to give the reader a real feeling of the events and people involved. One technique for achieving this is to treat the protagonists like characters in a novel. What is their motivation? What are they thinking? Truman Capote even uses his information in the book to get into the minds of the characters and establishes himself as the character. He even went as far to construct a new genre for what he believe he had created, ‘the nonfiction novel’.

 

 

 

• Status details. Just as important as the characters and the events, are the surroundings; specifically what people surround them with. Wolfe describes these items as the tools for a “social autopsy”, so we can see people as they see themselves. This, I, took to mean the subliminal messages and signs behind the things people do that make them who they are.

 

New Journalism and Existentialism

Similarities can and have been pieced together between the relationship of New Journalism and existentialism, a thought based on living in the current moment, and a journalism style about reporting/telling the story of the current moment.

Wolfe makes the point however that ‘new journalism (a term he doesn’t even like, was not a movement and had no manifesto) “all people knew was that there was an artistic excitement in journalism and that was a new thing in itself’

 

For instance, it’s easy to see similarities in quotes from famous existentialists compared to ‘new journalists’.

‘Only a god can save us./ You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.

 

‘Bureaucratic systems are a killing machine’/I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.

Martin Heidegger/Hunter S. Thompson

 

 

 

This touches on the subject of Authenticity; Hunter S. Thompson above shows his ‘good faith’ and ‘authenticity’ by not denying his impulses and his true being. He takes this outlook of life into his writing and it’s through that conversion, one could argue, he creates new journalism. In this above quote as well, Thompson highlights the existentialist belief of ‘you are your choices’

 

Wolfe talks about ‘moxie’ which I believe is a huge part of ‘New journalism, the ‘balls’ in other words to go that extra mile, (Ubermensch) to get information for your story/article. (These excerpts are from articles not books). But the book focuses on the ‘feature game’ and the space feature articles gave the ‘little league of writers’ that cropped up at that time and the publications that worked so well with them (Esquire/Rolling Stone).

 

Questions from the reading/seminar?

Is this the ‘New Journalism’ anymore?

No. This existential style of feature writing has lost it’s spark in my opinion, it was perfected by these writers/artists. But under the scrutiny of Levison which has evoked fear into journalist’s there is a style of ‘bad faith’ around the career. Twitter has revolutionized journalism once again, and almost single handedly. Journalism has now devolved from artistic,lengthy writing to bit points/hash tags that have reduced the writing styles of Wolfe/Thompson and Capote to 120 Characters.
Has/Will Journalism go ‘full circle’?

 

An idea that popped into my head while reading and writing this seminar paper was the thought that possibly journalism is doomed/blessed to be made up of circles, or a routine that repeats itself over an elongated period of time. For instance, I believe that ‘yellow journalism’ returned with the likes of the British tabloid, (The Sun/Daily Mail/NOTW). With this thought in mind, I asked whether my fellow students believed that ‘the feature game’ would have a strong comeback in the near future. There were mixed responses of course but my opinion is that I hope it does make a comeback due to a lack of feeling in what seems to be a twitter-dominated journalism these days.

Existentialism

“Existence proceeds essence” – Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre– The headline act of existentialism, it was not him but Gabriel Marcel who coined the term but it was Sartre who took it forward and defined it in his actions. Quotes such as the one above as well as “Existence is a necessary precondition”. A french writer who helped give meaning behind the group of philosophers surrounding schools of thought such as Phenomenology this quote below helps give more insight into his definition:

“man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterwards. If man as the existentialist sees him is not definable, it is because to begin with he is nothing. He will not be anything until later, and then he will be what he makes of himself “

Existentialism was a movement that focused on the inner workings of the human and it’s existence. Originating in the late 19th century philosophers such as Kierkegaard and Sartre who spearheaded the movement. Existentialism focuses on the idea that your next decision is your most important, and rather that it’s better to live in the moment than it to focus on the future or the past. Kierkegaard fought that the human/self is the meaning of life.

Another strong existentialist was Heidegger who coined the term ‘Dasein’ which roughly means with being ‘in time’ with the current mood/movement of the society/civilisation.

“This entity which each of us is himself…we shall denote by the term “Dasein””

He also preaches that we need to ensure we have an ‘Authentic Dasein’, something that is not in ‘Bad Faith’ which here means to do something against the inner will of your identity.

Kierkegaard – Danish libertine agreed that god is dead but that man should take a leap of faith and have faith in something rather than nothing.  Believed that people would sell their soul/good faith to fit into society (faustian).

^Existentialism Headliners- Edvard Munch’s scream highlights the infamous ‘existential crisis’

Heidegger- an open Nazi& Existentialist, highlighted that Descartes used god to explain his theories, but that existentialist’s KNOW that nothing makes sense. Heidegger’s “Hard problem of Consciousness”

The scream is a good example of where Heidegger believed that art at the time period explained the states of consciousness

It was Heidegger who coined the term Dasein for existentialism, which coincides with Sartres ideas of ‘good faith’, Heidegger believed that humans should have an ‘authentic dasein’ but he also believed that humans had the chance to make their own dasein, as every existentialist would believe, as they believe in freedom of choice up to the very last second.

Heideggar also helped coin a consciousness structure (modes of being):

Past is just guilt -Regret 

The future is not read until it becomes present– Dread/Fear

The Present is boredom– Boredom 

These three bolded words are what he believed the stages of life/consciousness was about.

Edmund Husserl- a contemporary of Frege’s believed that Language was a virus, similar to Orwell who believed that ‘those who control the language control the verses’.

Existentialists believed also in phenomenology, where you can only perceive what you yourself are thinking and that the idea of perception only works/relies on the attention that is being paid to it, without it, there is no idea of perception.

 

 

New Journalism (Tom Wolfe)

American Journalism: 

Compatible with existentialism, taken in isolation it doesn’t make much sense. 

• The first new journalism:The yellow press by William Randolph/Pulitzer  the origin of new journalism. (Tom Wolfe/Hunter S Thompson).
• Mid-19th Century Objectivity became a factor in journalism. The Associated Press, needed objectivity to be profitable. The AP sold fair/equal news which the press/penny papers would then turn and differ due to their stance. (left/right)
  • The objectivity of Journalism came in because of the money in it. People will pay for the neutrality, for example the Press Association/Reuters. 
• The penny papers in America- weren’t neutral/fair. 

Levinson Inquiry- Is journalism about Morals or Rules? 

Sensationalisaton- Huge/emotive headlines with big striking pictures. Sun on Sunday etc. 

Yellow Journalism was depicted as the new journalism, without the soul. (No morals/Levinson)- deals with Sin/Sex/Violence. 

America of the 60’s/70’s- Similar to time of Hearst/Yellow Press, Vietnam/Hippie movement lead to great political and social revolt’s in America. This new journalism was attempting to record events that mirrored, and you removed yourself from the real world, ‘the gutter press’- these journalist, spoke the language of the street and the people of the street. ‘Let reality bleed into your copy’. 

Babyboom brought along a huge difference between the old and the young, the conservative and the liberal. This liberalness came out through a sexual revolution/student movement- Sexual freedom/the pill/ civil rights/ Black Power.

The influence of Existentialism- 

Key Ideas: Freedom and choice, ‘you are your choices in the world’. The idea that there is a policeman in your head- superego- that needs to be destroyed and this began to seep into journalism. 

Journalist’s question whether to base their stories off of press statements and conferences, but this is in bad faith because this isn’t the case because there is always more to the story than meets the eye. This reaction to bad faith is was birthed New Journalism, moving away from old ways, creating Gonzo journalism/POV journalism. It’s subjective to the response of the writer, more true to the reality of the situation than being objective to whatever ‘they’ say. 

Diegetic to Mimetic- Telling changed to seeing, experiencing/feeling. 

Tom Wolfe- Huge fan of Emile Zola, one of the greatest writers of natural realism. 

New Journalism was REAL LIFE. If people are taking drugs, you will take drugs before you write about it, all the small details. Hunter S Thompson. 

New Journalism Pg46/47 , photocopy them and print them on my wall.